A view from the end of the water lily lake looking towards the house at Wisley RHS

Water lilies and fountain in front of house at Wisley RHS

This morning - hundreds of tulips line both sides of the pond. Some have multiple blooms on a single stem.

#SundayPix #SundayPixBefore&After

Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley - August 2024 and this morning with stunning tulips both sides of the water-lily pond.

A lichen covered twig with a few buds showing on it

A riot of white flowers on a blackthorn hedge

Last week and this week along the blackthorn hedge #SundayPixBeforeAndAfter #SundayPix

Postcard of Morecambe showing dolphin show, promenade and a “super swimming stadium”

Me and Eric Morecambe statue with Orinoco

The Midland Hotel - fell into decline, became derelict and has now been restored as a beautiful sea-front hotel

A timeless Morecambe sunset.

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Morecambe : then and now

Not been for a couple of years but always holds a special place in my heart

Airlines and airports book from 1970s

Postcard of Manchester airport. One plane in sight a turboprop I think

Family boarding a plane to Spain - possibly my first flight ever.

Modern plane at Singapore airport

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Changes in air travel. Most airports had observation decks and we’d go for a Sunday day trip to Manchester airport to see the planes and because the shops were open. If flying you could take photos while boarding. Wish I’d got photos of Clarkson planes

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Triplane and Concorde

Very old rotary dial phone on a table next to a candlestick.

Me with an iPhone - at a cocktail bar where they have top hats for the patrons to wear.

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Telephones.

A “trunk” of brugmansia with the beginnings of three flowers growing from the crown, amongst large, soft leaves.

One of those large buds is lying along a leaf, with the petals beginning to poke out of its sheath. Little strands are visible.

Now the shape of the flower is more recognisable with the strands being the delicate ends of the immanent trumpet.

The pale peachy trumpet-shaped flower hanging down in all its glory, with its delicate ends curling up a bit. And they smell absolutely divine.

#SundayPix #SundayPixBefore&After (Also #OnTheWay 😬) #brugmansia #Epping3076

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Lego - from box to display.

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Don't panic.

Tate Modern - a bicycle with a PC mounted on the rear luggage rack and a CRT monitor and keyboard balanced on the handlebars

A macbook pro around 2019 I think, on display in an Apple Store.

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Couldn't actually find the photo of my first computer and it's too cold and dark to find it in the attic - so here's an older and a newer design for mobile computing

Cameras.

Ignoring the miracle of mobile phones.

#SundayPix #SundayPixBefore&After

A chicken

Two boise eggs in Doctor Who Dalek and Cybermen egg cups.

You decide

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Great theme!

For tomorrow people!

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Ginger and grey.

A dumb cane plant (Dieffenbachia) rescued from my mother-in-law after her death, with two dead leaves and one unfurling in 2021.

A dumb cane plant (Dieffenbachia) ouside on the decking with its multitude of large green & white variegated leaves spread wide left and right.

For the #SundayPix early birds, this week's these is Before and After, the hashtag being #SundayPixBefore&After

All interpretations welcome, seasonal, growth, decor, whatever works for you.

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#SundayPixLeaf

Sunlight through a tree fern

Scenicworld Blue Mountains NSW

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Bougainvillea - the flowers look like modified leaves to me

A Hosta bursts to life in a raised border. The leaves are still pale green with light lines, as the season goes on the will become a very dark green

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#SundayPixLeaves

My Hosta before it goes mad and becomes the size of a small shed.

Ivy leaf having turned red in the Autumn

An entire wall of red ivy leaves to the back and in the front to the right a small tree with just a few orange leaves left on slim branches

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#SundayPixLeaves

Ivy from my Mum’s house

A brown and green leaf on sidewalk with dew drops on it

A tree in Parc Clingendael blooming in beautiful red and orange leafs with pond in the background

Trees in a Dutch forest. Photo taken from side of small lake, with reflection of green, orange and red leafs in water

A orange and red leaf on sidewalk, all wet from the rain

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Four of my favourite photos starring leaf(s)

A tessellated canopy of leaves from beneath, with sunlight through them

A vivid red, very thin-bodied dragonfly resting on a smooth, light green leaf, which allows the insect’s shadow on it to depict the finest details of its wing veins and limbs in the bright sunlight.

A couple of trailing young red stems of Virginia Creeper with early green leaves, all against a background of an out-of-focus, rustic, tan wood fence.

A sleek, vivid metallic blue damselfly, settled with wings folded tightly along its body, on lacy leaves. In the blurry background are chaotic shadows and hints of two small pink flowers.

#SundayPixLeaf
I enjoy how the weekly themes and writing Alt text for #SundayPix posts makes me look at, and think about, my photos again.

Terrace with a pergola and a large red banana plant.

My lower terrace. 🇫🇷
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A silver Rolex watch hanging from a green shrub.

What TV series is this. #SundayPix #SundayPixLeaf

A large primate is facing away but clearly visible amongst the lush vegetation of a rainforest.

#SundayPixLeaf
Haven’t posted a #SundayPix in a while because I didn’t seem to have the right photo. Anyway. This is someone hiding behind leaves on Langkawi last year.

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“You ought to take a leaf out of his book”

Books have leaves.

Don’t do it literally though - unless you just read it. Removing leaves from books should never be done.

#RememberingWombie

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Just to add to my previous post, here’s a photo from Kew Archives and a link to the article.

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Don’t try this at home.

Outline shadow of a leaf

If you squint you can see it

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#SundayPixLeaf

A few heads of iceberg lettuce at the grocery store, with a price label that says, “$8.99 each”. Yikes!

#SundayPixLeaf I took this photo on 4th July 2022. I don’t remember now why the lettuce was so damn expensive but I suspect it was to do with COVID lockdowns. A very expensive leaf, in any case, one that I would not have bought. #SundayPix

On a background of deep red sand lie some dead leaves, twigs, grey grasses, small gum nuts and something that might be an attractive pile of old, weathered dung.

#SundayPixLeaf In the Red Centre, a collection of natural litter in all sorts of textures and colours. #SundayPix

An Egyptian arch at Highgate Cemetery with ferns to the front left of the photograph.

A purple poppy anenome.

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With fronds like these, who needs anemones?

Orinoco a Blenheim coloured Cavalier King Charles Soaniel by a wall next to bright red maple leaves.

Orinoco sitting and smiling at the camera with a carpet of golden autumn leaves

Orinoco standing and looking at camera. Same carpet of autumn leaves.

Orinoco walking down a street in Islington with a cone. Leaves are gathering in the cone as he walks.

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Many moons ago, Orinoco was “Mr October” on a #cavpack calendar and after that we’ve always taken an autumnal photo.
One year he was wearing a cone which worked well as a leaf-collector